Garcia v. Hall’s Empirical Analysis
624 F.2d 150 · 1980
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 10 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 31 later decisions — most recently March 2011 · most notably Scheufler v. General Host Corp. (1997), Brocklesby Transport Division of Kingsway Transports Ltd v. Eastern States Escort Services Eastern States Escort Services (1990)
6 federal appellate · 10 district · 3 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Relies on Erie Co v. Tompkins · Provident Tradesmens Bank & Trust Co. v. Patterson · United States v. Aetna Casualty & Surety Co. · Union Carbide Corp. v. National Labor Relations Board · Virginia Elec. & Power Co. v. Westinghouse Elec. Corp.
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 31 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]hey knew the persons and the issues involved before the statute of limitations ran”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“When joinder of a partially subrogated insurance company would require dismissal of a suit brought by the insured for the entire amount of the loss, the considerations enumerated in Fed. R.Civ.P. 19 should be applied. Rule 19 specifies that courts not be deprived of jurisdiction by unnecessary joinder, and it makes dismissal hinge on the existence of prejudice, particularly the risk of multiple litigation.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.